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Sarah Arvanitis has lodged a complaint against her lawyer alleging she was assured her permanent residency application had been filed in 2021. When the Hamilton mom tried to return to Canada, she was told there was no record of it and she was denied entry for months.

Sabrina Hill, former chair of Niagara Region's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Committee, says the vandalism at a Niagara-on-the-Lake crosswalk is just the latest attack against LGBTQ+ communities in the region.

Dalton Pompey has become used to wearing a TorontoBlue Jays uniform, but now he's getting used to a different uniform - one with a bulletproof vest. The 30-year-old retired baseball playerfrom Mississauga Ont., has joined the Hamilton Police Service.

Film studios in Hamilton say business has slowed dramatically in the wake of the writer and actor strike in Hollywood, with American projects shutting down. While Canadian productions are still filming, the major shows that film in Hamilton are paused indefinitely.

A new report shines a spotlight on Canada's health-care crisis, including major decreases in surgeries through the early years of the pandemic, ongoing staff shortages, and the roughly one in 10 Canadians who say they don't have a regular provider.

Experts say Ottawa is playing more of a role in housing, which is mostly a provincial and territorial responsibility, but federal involvement hasn't brought much relief amid rising home prices.

Since 2020, Hamilton landlords who failed to keep buildings free of cockroaches, bedbugs or rats haven't faced bylaw orders or fees. Public health says enforcement will begin again by mid-August. Tenant Tammy Brown says it's too late to help her family, adding, "We have nothing left."

The young firefighter who died last week in British Columbia has been identified as Waterford's Zak Muise in an online obituary and tribute by the firefighting contractor he worked for.

The inquest for Samuel Brown, a student at W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind who died in 2018 in Brantford, Ont., hospital at age 18, will begin later this month.

Play Airlines, a discount carrier that launched its first flights out of Hamilton in June, announced Tuesday that travellers will be able to fly from here to Frankfurt starting in December.

Social media giant Meta says it has officially begun ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting Tuesday.

A28-year-old man facestheft charges afterAncaster Little League's bleachers went missing in late June, say Hamilton police.

Greg Slaight says the donation was made possible by his father, Allan Slaight, a rock 'n' roll radio pioneer, broadcasting mogul and prominent philanthropist.

The city is increasing weekend service on some lines and extending routes for others.

It might be the middle of the summer, but new recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization suggest Canadians think about getting COVID booster shots before flu season in the fall.

Hamilton lawyers say they're struggling to get access to clients who are imprisoned in the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre.

Trudeau and Horwath are still in talks about a requested $9M for Hamilon refugees facing homelessness

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's only plan to combat the high cost of living is to stoke Canadians' fears, encourage their anger and promise to cut programs that help make their lives better.

A 58-year-old man from Kitchener, Ont., has died after falling from a cliff while hiking in Mount Nemo Conservation Area late Sunday afternoon.

Hamilton is getting roughly $45 million from the federal government to spend onfour housing projects in thelower city.

Franklin the turkeyis notorious for crossing the road without a care in the world in the Franklin and Weber area of Kitchener, Ont. The bird has been gaining popularity on social media with neighbours.

Statistics obtained by CBC through a freedom of information request don't detail exactly when or how the improper of inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre occurred, but show a total of 14 mistaken releases since 2016.

Velimir Drecun is warning other Meridian Credit Union customers to check their Equifax credit score after learning an internal problem at the credit reporting company led to duplicated debt and a erroneous "poor" credit rating on his report.

The search continues Sunday for a missing 14-year-old who was last seen using an inflatable swim toy in Lake Ontario on Saturday.

Cannabis retailers and producers hope an upcoming move by Ontario's pot distributor to lower its price markups will help an industry still struggling to compete with the illicit market.

These prescriptions have nothing to do with meds. As part of Compass Community Health's FVRx program, the only one of its kind in Hamilton, residents receivea box full of produce every other week.A year in, there's a wait list, and it's growing.

Bo Levi Mitchell is back on the six-game injured list. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Saturday they've put the veteran quarterback on the extended list after he injured his lower right leg in Friday night's 16-12 road win over the Ottawa Redblacks.

Things are almost 'back to normal,' for the third in-person Hamilton Fringe Festival since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to festivalinterim executive director Christopher Stanton. 'COVID-19 hit us really hard,' he said. 'We weren't sure if we were going to come back.' The festival ends this Sunday.

When Cyprin Ontitacame to Canada from Kenya, he said he was 'in the dark' about what life would be like as an asylum seeker.He had to sleep outside in Toronto before someone suggested he would find space in Hamilton. He's now one of many in the city's shelter system.

The union alleges the company is withholding workers' vacation pay. Over 1,450 workers have been on off the job since June 29.

The heat wave that has baked Hamilton and surrounding areas is set to end Saturday, but not before one final scorcher, according to Environment Canada.

It's the first batch of mosquitos to be found carrying the virus this year, says the city. It's advising residents to take precautions to prevent bites.

July might be ending, but there are plenty of fun summer festivities to enjoy this weekend. From watching Hamiltonians act out their own stories at Fringe Fest to busting a move at the bayfront, here's what's on.

The 26 complaints, obtained by CBC Hamilton through a freedom of information request, ranged from issues about long waits and confusion about what can be brought onto a plane, to more serious complaints about pat downs and a knife getting past security.

Summer brings the opportunity more strolls and hikes, and more time on bikes - in some cases, on streets without cars.

London police have laid hundreds of charges and seized multiple firearms during an extensive operation that included assistance from the OPP, police services in Hamilton and Sudbury, along with other government agencies.

After being in paramedicine for half a century, Michael Sanderson said he never saw a year for paramedics like 2022.

For Alison Myrden, who lives with multiple sclerosis, the early July police bust at Hamilton's Mushroom Cabinet meant a massive and nearly immediate deterioration in her quality of life.

Speakers from groups such as the Hamilton Transit Riders' Union and the Amalgamated Transit Union came together before a cityLRT subcommitteemeetingto make their case against the privatization of Hamilton's new LRT system.

A 77-year-old man is dead after being hit by a driver while crossing Fennell Avenue East on the Hamilton Mountain.

National Steel Car has been fined$140,000 two years after one of its workers died on the job.

Hamilton's mayor is asking the federal government for roughly $9 million to address an "alarming rise" of refugee and asylum seekers ending up in the shelter system or living on the streets.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Hamilton woman Emily Bailey are asking the city's police board to authorize a $20,000 reward for 'information leading to the location of Emily Bailey's remains and conviction to those responsible for her disappearance.'

A mother and her teen son have been chargedaftera string of commercialbreak and enters in the Niagara region, police say.

Socks Off campaign launches in Hamilton with a goal to reduce the number of residents who lose a foot to amputation due to diabetes.

Naudle Oshoweetok was 10 years old when he left his home in Kinngait, Nunavut, and boarded the C.D. Howe Arctic Patrol ship. "I didn't know where we were going," he says. Oshoweetok ended up in Hamilton for tuberculosis treatment, and has returned, 65 years later.

Heat warnings across Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Burlington and Brantford are expected to last until Friday.

July 28 will mark 18 years since a newborn baby was found dead beside a Brantford, Ont., street.

The federal Conservatives say Canadians angry over Paul Bernardo's move to a medium-security prison have a Liberal government law to blame.